** Summary changed: - transparent panel fails to properly blur desktop background + Transparent gnome-panel fails to properly blur desktop background
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/553716 Title: Transparent gnome-panel fails to properly blur desktop background Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-panel Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch) Release: 10.04 gnome-panel: 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu1 compiz: 1:0.8.4-0ubuntu13 Using updated Lucid (as of 04/01/10) the GNOME panel no longer blurs the desktop background behind it properly. I'm using the Compiz Blur plugin (Blur Filter: Gaussian, Gaussian Radius: 15, Gaussian Strength: 0.1000, Mipmap LOD: 5, Independent texture fetch), Compiz Opacity, Brightness and Saturation plugin ((class=Gnome-panel) & class=90) and a png background image for the panel with an alpha channel (approx. 25% opaque). Before this bug the panel was beautiful and the text clearly readable with most backgrounds, but now it looks pretty bad unfortunately. I've experimented with different settings, themes, etc., but the effect remains the same. If I use Alt-Middlemouse over the panel to gradually adjust the panel opacity, it will slightly blur the desktop background at around the 25% opaque mark, but the blur strength doesn't correspond at all to the blur strength of other windows' opacity levels. With the panel set to 25% opaque, moving a window behind the panel will result in the window being more blurry than the desktop background, where before they'd be blurred by the same amount. Using the panel properties (Solid color with transparency) results in no blurring at all of the background or windows moved underneath it. Using only the alpha channel in the panel background image for transparency results in no blur at all in the desktop background and any windows moved under the panel can't be seen at all. There are several similar problems here, all of which I hope are related to one or more recent changes in gnome-panel or Compiz and/or its plugins. Which themes are used seems to be irrelevant. Here's the panel background image I'm using if anyone would like to experiment with this: http://www.eightvirtues.com/misc/bar_horizontal_05_supertrans_32.png Here's my Compiz settings: http://www.eightvirtues.com/misc/Compiz_Settings (right-click, Save Link As) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: gnome-panel 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-18.27-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-18-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Apr 1 20:31:49 2010 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-panel To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/553716/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
